History of Portable Network Graphics

Last update Aug. 18^th 2024 11:18:58 AM

Creation date Apr. 11^th 2011 11:49:06 PM

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  Seralo on Aug. 18^th 2024 11:16:43 AMReport

  Vector graphics

  no

  Layers support

  no

  CMYK support (for print)

  no

  Wikipedia

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG

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  Seralo on Aug. 18^th 2024 11:09:40 AMReport

  Short name

  PNG

  HDR

  no

  Description

  PNG was created to improve GIF image-file format. Removing patent license issues at that time; and removing 256 colors limitation.

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  _wb_ on Oct. 3^rd 2021 4:06:49 PMReport

  Year

  1996

  Vector graphics

  no

  Raster image

  yes

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  _wb_ on Oct. 3^rd 2021 10:53:07 AMReport

  Cons

  Lossless only. Poor compression for photographic images.

  Maximum bit depth

  16-bit

  CMYK support (for print)

  no

  Maximum number of channels

  4 (RGBA)

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  Alexis on Sep. 21^st 2020 9:42:55 PMReport

  Microsoft Edge

  yes

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  Alexis on Sep. 21^st 2020 9:03:31 PMReport

  HDR

  no

• 
  Matt Dexter Adams on Dec. 31^st 2016 7:21:54 PMReport

  Animation support

  - Animated PNG is an extension to the PNG format which is compatible with the Gecko and WebKit layout engines and many image editing suites. Users of software incompatible with APNG see the first frame as a still.

  File extensions

  Still: .png; Animated: .png, .apng

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  Bre Wight on Mar. 13^th 2016 3:17:13 PMReport

  Cons

  More complex and larger image files can be large
  Only supports web colors (RGB)
  Limited compatibility

  Commonly used for

  Icons
  Simple web graphics like logos
  Illustrations, or raster text rendering

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  Bre Wight on Mar. 13^th 2016 12:58:26 PMReport

  Pros

  Widely accepted format
  Lossless
  Transparency support
  

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  Seralive on Apr. 11^th 2011 11:49:06 PMReport

  Mode

  70

  Name

  Portable Network Graphics

  Viewer

  public

  Editor

  public

  Category

  pratical

  File extensions

  .png

  Developed by

  W3C (donated by PNG Development Group)

  Commonly used for

  Icons

  Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics

  Lossless

  yes

  Short name

  PNG

  Animation support

  no

  Internet Explorer

  yes

  Google Chrome

  yes

  Safari

  yes

  Opera

  yes

  Firefox

  yes

  Licensed

  no

  Pros

  Lossless
  Widely supported format
  Transparency support

  Transparency support

  yes

  Layers support

  no

  Description

  PNG was created to improve GIF image-file format. Removing patent license issues at that time; and removing 256 colors limitation.